Most products based on Intel Apollo Lake processor do so to leverage the low cost and low power of the chip that also embeds Intel HD graphics removing the need for an external graphics card. But T-bao Tbook X8S Pro laptop powered by Intel Celeron J3455 Apollo Lake “Desktop” processor also comes with an NVIDIA GeForce 920M GPU which should boost graphics performance.

The laptop comes pre-loaded with Windows 10, and ships with a power supply, and user manual.

I could not find a direct comparison between GeForce 920M and Intel HD Graphics 500, but there’s one against the slightly faster Intel HD Graphics 505 found in other Apollo Lake processor, and the NVIDIA card is roughly two to three times faster in 3DMark benchmarks.

Is it confirmed that the Intel HD Graphic GPU is disabled ? That would suck because those two GPU configurations are great : Integrated graphics for low power tasks, and Discrete GPU for gaming, if only the 920M is available, battery life will suffer.

@Fred
My bet is that celeron does not have the GPU switching hw like big core pentiums, i3s etc have. So they had to wire the GPu directly to pcie lanes and connect the display to the GPU, hence no switching ability.

Hey, the 920M has a TDP of 33W by specs, that’s just a little bit more than 3 times the TDP of the whole Intel chip. 🙂

No idea how much a PCIe 2.0 x4 interface will bottleneck gaming with the NVIDIA card but it’s also interesting how smooth video decoding will work here if Intel’s highly power efficient QuickSync can not be used and decoding has to be done on the CPU cores.

I would better avoid the word ‘battery’ in combination with this device at all but this should’ve already been obvious by looking at the power supply specs 😉